Ezra Pound's Japan

The first book to deal with the subject of Ezra Pound's relationships with Japanese literature as a whole, this book provides a wealth of new scholarship on this subject, including on the 19th-century Japanese contexts that led to Pound's interest in 'hokku' and Fenollosa's No translations on which Pound based his own; significant original research on Pound's Japanese friendships that enriched his understanding of Japanese literature; and an examination of all the explicit references to No in The Cantos in unprecedented depth. It demonstrates that the works for which Ezra Pound is most famous, such as 'In a Station of the Metro' and his epic poem, The Cantos, were shaped by his lifelong interest in Japanese literature.

Author: Andrew Houwen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 09/22/2022
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9781350216808
ISBN10: 1350216801
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century

About the Author
Andrew Houwen is Associate Professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan.